F. LASSALLE AND I. B. SCHWEITZER: EVOLUTION OF PERSPECTIVESABOUT THE ROLE OF TRADE UNIONS IN THE RECONSTRUCTION OF SOCIETY

In the article, based on an analysis of the works of F. Lassalle and I. B. Schweitzer, works of the classics of Marxism and their closest associates, works of direct participants in the German workers’ professional movement of the second half of the 19th century, articles of German and Russian researchers of the 19th-21st centuries. the labor movement in Germany, the works and speeches of Soviet party functionaries of the 20s of the twentieth century, the evolution of the views of F. Lassalle and I. B. Schweitzer on the role of trade unions in the reconstruction of society in Germany. The reasons for the transformation of their views, the similarities and differences between their approaches to leading the German labor movement with the views of K. Marx and F. Engels are indicated. The insufficient validity of criticism of the classics of Marxism and later researchers who stood on the positions of Marxism-Leninism and Lassallean policies regarding workers’ unions is shown. Based on the views of F. Lassalle and I. B. Schweitzer was largely influenced by the historical conditions of Germany at that time, the realities of the struggle of political forces that sought to subordinate to their influence the German workers’ professional movement of the second half of the 19th century.